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This week we will continue to introduce new topics to our students and have included several video lessons to support these new learning goals. We are excited to begin our final unit of science study, Earth: Our Big Home.
I can't overstate how amused I am by the phrase "Earth: Our Big Home".
The emails from kindergarten are seriously the most heartening thing I get from the Internet. -
The Sounds of the Bodleian are strangely compelling. (Via John Naughton's audio diary.) It's just still pictures of the the Bodleian Library with sounds recorded from it, which are typical milling-about library sounds. The guy, who's five, spent twenty minutes just looking and listening to it.
If you want more, here's some closing sounds the Cambridge Main Library that I recorded several years ago. -
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Woke up once during the night, but I think it was a natural kind of incident. Also, Dr. Wily woke me up at 6 this morning. I wouldn't have minded, but I took over 45 minutes to fall asleep last night, so she may have interrupted REM sleep.
Still, overall the quality of sleep is waaay higher than that of last week and the weeks before that.
Tonight, I'm going to try not looking at my phone 30 minutes before bedtime. -
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Ran for half an hour, this time on the actual bike path, where it’s actually feasible to socially distance when it’s raining.
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Woke up three times during the night last night, but they were at least brief wake-ups. Took a while to fall asleep initially possibly because of wet hair. Gotta shower a little earlier.
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I woke up five times during the night two weeks ago, but only two times last night. I hope these trends continue. 📉
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Single set of 13. Got a lot of my planned stuff done today, but the workout got squeezed.
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Ran for 40 minutes, hit a bit of Medford. 10 pull-ups.
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My friend Alex made this incredible metal William Tell Overture supercut. I don't yet know if he time stretched the excerpts in order to get everything to flow so smoothly, but it does, and it's very invigorating!
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Our friend Mary dropped off some cupcakes she made yesterday. It was super nice. This is another argument in favor of being able to produce physical objects, and quickly, too. They mean a lot of people.
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Whatever lay in store for the movement, he said, XR would
have to maintain a conspicuous presence on the streets, or what he called ‘the analogue element’, as opposed to digital activism: actual people doing real things in
three—dimensional space. ‘Social media is like heroin,’ he said. ‘Fantastic, but it does you in.
—One of the founders of Extinction Rebellion, Roger Hallam, on doing things in real life. This was pre-pandemic, though. They’re in a tough spot now. -
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